Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-25
Tn. Paradise of Hotels.

The Paradise of Hotels.
An examination of the plans of Mr..
Thayer for the new hotel to be erected
on main and Tenth streets, "a CIR
cumstantial description of which was
published in yesterdays HERALD
has given US very high appreciation
OF the magnifcence and splendor that
will characterize this projected edi-
fee. The architecture-a combina-
ton of the castellated renaissance and
the Norman tower styles blended
with the light and airy palace IA
.cades Of the modern Italian villa
impresses one with a lively
appreciation of its exquisite beauty,
strength and holiness. Its interior
will be in keeping with its exterior,
with the addition that it will be the
most complete hotel, in all that goes
to make up substantial comfort and
esthetic delight, in the United States.
There will not be dark room in the
house, and everything about it, IN
side and out. from the kitchen to the
attic, will be splendid. Indeed, that
is the word, and that is what the
hotel might be named with strik-
ing propriety-THE SPLENDID. We
had no intention, however, IN
this article, to con6ne ourselves to any
particular hotel, but to speak gener-
ally of hotels here and elsewhere, ana
to show our readers that Los Angeles
is destined to be the paradise OF hotel
keepers. Our climate is attracting
people from all parts of the world;
and it is not only the poor in health
who wish to profit hygienically by
it. but that great mass of the human
family who wish to enjoy life-who,
having the means to pay for the best
of the good things of this world, are
DESTROYS of living in a climate
that will give life and add
ed enjoyment by enabling
them to live in an almost perennial
sunshine and an atmosphere so mild,
SO balmy, and so exhilarating, thatthe
very fact of existence is continual
ple asure. This class are coming here
in large numbers, and they will con-
tinue to come in greatly accelerated
numbers if they can find here the
accommodations they reused to, and
which they will not be without. The
ira nsmontane States and Europe will
urnish patronage for all the first-class
hotels we can build in Los An
geles. This is kind OF improve
m ent that cannot be overdone, and II
we had to-day, and in operation, a
dozen such hotels as "The Splendid
will be, they would all be filled. We
have seen what climate has done for
Nice. Mentone and the Riviera. But
excellent as is the climate of the
Mediterranean shore, it is admitted
that the climate of this section OF Cali
fornia is superior to it. We have no
mistrals and no earthquakes, and
within narrow belt OF territory
we have climatic variations such
as render it possible that
every constitution can be gratihed
and every infrmity alleviated, if not
cured, by the natural amenities and
recuperative qualities of our matchless
climate. Los Angeles is the great
populous centre of this incompatible |
sanitarium, so to speak. Here will
crowd the retired business man, the
tourist, the fAneur and the invalid.
People of more wealth than health
will come to us in crowds from
every quarter OF the globe. All
we have tn do is to provide
fitting places for them to cone to.
The hotel, for these people, is their
home; and the more it is made to re-
alize to the guest the comfort of home,
the more will come to enjoy it. The
who have projected the
Main and Ninth street, the st. Vim
cent and other hotels, need borrow no
trouble about the business being over
lone here. That is simply impossible.
The danger is the other way, as far
q the general interests of the com
nunity are concerned-that we shall
orce away the great bulk of those
Who would fain remain here if they
ould find the necessary accommoda-
ions. Many who come here with the t
Intention of passing the winter with Il
Is have left on this account. The n